Reports

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering presented its two-seat ultralight airplane, UL-39 ALBI, on this years´ International Engineering Fair. It cought the eye of fair´s professional comitee and recieved a MSV 2016 Gold medal in Transportation and logistics category.

On September 30, rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, prof. Petr Konvalinka and the CEO of Siemens Czech Republic, Eduard Palíšek, signed agreement on support of three of our professors. The contracts provide universities with direct access to the latest technologies, strategies and concepts. Siemens will also support VUT in Brno and TU Ostrava the same way.

Through its programs, the Fulbright Commission supported Czech scientists and students in the upcoming academic year as well. The scholarship of program for scientists and university staff was awarded to prof. Jan Holub of Faculty of Information Technology and Ing. Martin Doškář from the Faculty of Civil Engineering was awarded with student scholarship. Professor Jeffrey Frolík will come to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering as Fulbright Distinguished Chair .

The 4th edition of the Buildings with wood scent contest, whose results were announced on 15 September at the Exhibition Centre in Brno, was won by Kristina Ulrychová from the Faculty of Civil Engineering with her proposal for a house in Lipno nad Vltavou. The third place went to Tomáš Papoušek, student of the same faculty, with his project, The Wave. This year, 68 students from 11 Czech and Slovak universities entered the competition, using 55 building parts.

Prof. Vladimir Mařík, head of CTU Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, received the prestigious ABB Lifetime Contribution to Factory Automation Award, at the ETFA conference in Berlin on 8 September. He received it from the hands of director of research at ABB, prof. Alf Isaksson.

The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on 9 September between prof. Peter Konvalinka,Rector of CTU, and Opatov high school principal RNDr. Jan Perina. The Opatov high school is home to a unique facility for teaching particle physics - a cloud chamber, which was created under a project of chemistry teacher Mgr. Jan Bauer and his then high school students Ondřej Zbytek and Ondřej Svoboda. They are currently studying at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Both institutions expressed interest to cooperate on technical matters related to education of pupils and students and expanding expertise of Opatov high school teachers, as well as academic staff of CTU.

Several wooden buildings were created on the Jizera river beach in Mnichovo Hradiště during the summer holidays . They were designed and produced by students of the Faculty of Architecture at CTU as part of a summer workshop of Josef Mádr and Šárka Malošíková studio MáMa. Collaboration between the studio and the townhall lasted for the past academic year, during which students explored hidden potential of the place through their designs and checked the objectives of new development plans. Town of Mnichovo Hradiště took the beach modification as one of its priorities and provided students and educators with material and technical support.

Scientists from the pattern recognition group and machine learning at Faculty of Electrical Engineering will participate on leading research in artificial intelligence within the FAIR partnership (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research). The project´s aim is to accelerate advancement and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence, namely the Deep Neural Netwroks area.

The Research group of prof. Michal Pěchouček founded Artificial Intelligence center (AI Center) at the Computer Department of Faculty of Electrical Engineering. It builds on the work of the Centre of Agent Technology. Its main mission will be to house both basic and applied research in artificial intelligence, industrial cooperation and artificial intelligence technology transfer.

A BBC television team filmed material for its 4 Tech show on the CTU grounds from 23 to 25 august. The crew was interested in the invention of rolling turbines by Associate professor Miroslav Sedláček from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, for which he was nominated for a European Award for Inventor 2016 in the Research category. They have also filmed other unique research projects extending into practice.